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Appeasing Zion: The Israel Lobby and Injustice in Palestine

August 9, 2021September 4, 2020 by Omar Shalabi

Since World War II the Israel lobby has exerted enormous influence over US foreign policy. Yet with a few notable exceptions, scholars and journalists have done a poor job of researching and analyzing the lobby, in part because they are routinely smeared for doing so. Building on his previous study, Israel’s Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict, Walter Hixson explains how Israel and the U.S. lobby have collaborated for decades to distort history and fend off challenges to Israel’s congenital aggression in Palestine.

Alan Dershowitz demands censorship of Al Jazeera Israel lobby film

March 15, 2018 by Samirah Alkassim

Alan Dershowitz is calling for the government of Qatar to censor Al Jazeera’s suppressed film exposing the US Israel lobby. In a letter on Monday he called for the channel to “reshoot and re-edit” the film before its release to add “pro-Israel commentators.” Clayton Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, revealed in an article for The Jewish Daily Forward on Friday that he ran into Dershowitz at a restaurant when the Harvard law professor and prominent propagandist for Israel was recently in the Qatari capital Doha.

Panel I of The 2015 Palestine Center Annual Conference

March 10, 2016October 23, 2015 by Samirah Alkassim

In Panel I “Covering Palestine: U.S. Media, the Israel Lobby, and Public Opinion,” Ali Abunimah, Philip Weiss, and Said Arikat discuss how the U.S. media chooses to cover events dealing with Palestine and the Palestinians and the extent of the influence of particular interests, such as the Israel lobby, on this coverage. They also consider how the grassroots landscape, including voices of activist Americans, Palestinians, Palestinian Americans, Jewish Americans, and others, is transforming public opinion.